That will only work if the target file is not in a per-machine directory
or you ran your entire MSI elevated (icky, icky, icky).
Adr!an Serafin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Thank's for the response :) I need my own CA for some other things to ;)
> Besides I found solution. If anyone needs it:
>
> <Custom Action="EditConfig" After="InstallFinalize"
> Overridable="no"></Custom>
>
> where After="InstallFinalize" is the key ;)
>
> Adrian
>
> 2009/9/11 John Nannenga <john.nanne...@microsoft.com>
>
>
>> You likely don't need your own CA for this, check out XmlConfig or XmlFile.
>>
>> Your problem here is likely that you get a FileNotFoundException or
>> something similar which is due to the fact you have your CA scheduled to
>> execute in the "immediate" sequence and scheduled after "InstallFiles" which
>> doesn't put any files onto the machine until the "deferred" sequence.
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Adrian Serafin [abus...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:10 AM
>> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [WiX-users] C# Custom Action, change some files during
>> installation
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm struggling with this for some time now... I'm trying to make my custom
>> action to modify applications config.exe file but no success. Maybe someone
>> can help??
>>
>> <CustomAction
>> Id="EditConfig"
>> BinaryKey="EditConfigDLL"
>> DllEntry="EditCPConfig"
>> Execute="immediate"
>> Return="ignore" />
>> <Binary Id="EditConfigDLL" SourceFile="ConfigEditCA.CA.dll" />
>> <InstallExecuteSequence>
>> <Custom Action="EditConfig" After="InstallFiles" Overridable="no"></Custom>
>> </InstallExecuteSequence>
>>
>> And here is c# code:
>>
>> public static ActionResult EditCPAConfig(Session session)
>> {
>> string db_user = session["DB_USER"];
>> string db_password = session["DB_PASSWORD"];
>> string u_profile = "localSU";
>>
>> string installdir = session["INSTALLDIR"];
>>
>> System.Xml.XmlDocument xml_doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
>> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();
>> xml_doc.Load(installdir + "Cairo.Producer.Admin.exe.config");
>> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();
>> System.Xml.XmlElement conf_elem = xml_doc.DocumentElement;
>> System.Xml.XmlElement conn_string =
>> (System.Xml.XmlElement)conf_elem.FirstChild;
>> System.Xml.XmlElement add_conn = xml_doc.CreateElement("add");
>>
>> add_conn.SetAttribute("name", u_profile);
>> add_conn.SetAttribute("connectionString", "something");
>> add_conn.SetAttribute("providerName", "Npgsql");
>>
>> conn_string.AppendChild(add_conn);
>> xml_doc.Save(installdir + "Cairo.Producer.exe.config");
>> System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Launch();
>>
>> return ActionResult.Success;
>> }
>>
>> Code works when i put files in installfolder on my computer...
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